Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire is in Staffordshire.
The River Trent rises on Biddulph Moor, Staffordshire [Map] and flows, in a great horseshoe through, or near, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire [Map], Stone, Staffordshire [Map], Essex Bridge [Map], Bishton Hall, Staffordshire [Map], Colwich, Staffordshire [Map] passing St Michael and All Angels Church, Colwich [Map], Rugeley, Staffordshire [Map], Kings Bromley, Staffordshire [Map], Alrewas, Staffordshire [Map], Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire [Map], Newton Solney, Derbyshire [Map], Repton, Derbyshire [Map], under Swarkestone Bridge, Derbyshire [Map], Sawley, Derbyshire [Map], Nottingham, Nottinghamshire [Map], Holme Pierrepoint, Nottinghamshire [Map], Stoke Ferry, Shelford [Map], under Gunthorpe Bridge, Nottinghamshire [Map], past Gunthorpe Lock [Map], Hoveringham, Nottingham [Map], Newark on Trent, Nottinghamshire [Map], Knaith [Map], Dunham Bridge [Map], Sutton on Trent, Nottinghamshire [Map], the Isle of Axholme [Map] and Gainsborough [Map] before joining the Humber Estuary at Trent Falls [Map].
In 1536 the stone tower was added to St John the Baptist's Church, Burslem [Map].
Before 26th December 1669, the date he was baptised at St John the Baptist's Church, Burslem [Map], Ralph Sneyd was born to William Sneyd [aged 27].
In 1717 St John the Baptist's Church, Burslem [Map] was rebuilt, replacing an earlier timber-framed building destroyed in a fire.
In 1809 St John the Baptist's Church, Burslem [Map] became a parish. before that it was a chapelry in the parish of Stoke-upon-Trent, but often regarded as a parish, having its own churchwardens from 1553.
In December 1860 Ellis William Roberts was born to Thomas Roberts at Wolstanton, Staffordshire in Burslem, Staffordshire. He is recorded on the 1861 Census, taken on 07 Apr 1861, as being five months. He married 6th October 1888 Eliza Glover and had issue.
On 26th May 1779 John Sparrow of Bishton Hall in Staffordshire [aged 42] and Elizabeth Moreton [aged 38] were married at St Margaret's Church Wolstanton, Staffordshire by Ralph Moreton clerk, in presence of Mary Moreton and R Moreton.
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In November 1246 Bertrade Mainwaring [aged 49] died at Hulton Abbey [Map].
On 1st April 1386 James Audley 2nd Baron Audley of Heighley [aged 73] died. He was buried at Hulton Abbey [Map]. His son Nicholas [aged 58] succeeded 3rd Baron Audley of Heighley in Staffordshire.
Jean de Waurin's Chronicle of England Volume 6 Books 3-6: The Wars of the Roses
Jean de Waurin was a French Chronicler, from the Artois region, who was born around 1400, and died around 1474. Waurin’s Chronicle of England, Volume 6, covering the period 1450 to 1471, from which we have selected and translated Chapters relating to the Wars of the Roses, provides a vivid, original, contemporary description of key events some of which he witnessed first-hand, some of which he was told by the key people involved with whom Waurin had a personal relationship.
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In 1391 Nicholas Audley 3rd Baron Audley of Heighley [aged 63] died without issue. He was buried at Hulton Abbey [Map]. Baron Audley of Heighley in Staffordshire abeyant between his sisters Joan Audley [aged 60] and Margaret Audley.